Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.
VIKTOR FRANKLDespair is suffering without meaning.
More Viktor Frankl Quotes
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The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
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Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
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When a man cannot find meaning, he numbs himself with pleasure.
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So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
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Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.
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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.
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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment.
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Despair is suffering without meaning.
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Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.
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A man’s concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.
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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me.
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Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.
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Even when it is not fully attained, we become better by striving for a higher goal.
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The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing
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Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
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Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.
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The salvation of man is through love and in love.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
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Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.
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Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
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It isn’t the past which holds us back, it’s the future; and how we undermine it, today.
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